This is becoming laugh out loud material...

...From the once esteemed London Telegraph comes this amazing GOOD NEWS story, bylined in today's NZ Herald as "Pollution stalls climate change, scientists find".

Well...our awful pollution via our filthy capitalistic excess can't be all that bad after all... The climate has stopped misbehaving and leading us to climatastrophe, thanks apparently to all our efforts with disposable nappies, plastic bags and SUV's and leaving the TV's on standby...ripper ! Greenies will be slightly thrilled ...I think. (Nothing to do of course, with the fact that solar activity is at a 100 year low, it's the use of our wasteful and destructive aerosols, plastics, oil and coal that's put the spanner in the climate change works). But there's a lot more...the article continues...

...Pollution is protecting the world from climate change, according to 2 new studies.

The first found that the hole in the ozone layer, caused by the use of CFC's, has prevented the melting of Antarctica, even as the rest of the world warms. The second found that plants absorb more carbon dioxide under polluted skies, thereby slowing global warming...

...mmm. Hang on. Haven't we been told ad nauseum that our "pollution" acts as an envelope, trapping "greenhouse" heat ? Anyway, fair enough, carry on, there's more...

...Scientists said the findings made it even more important to cut carbon emmissions as pollution from CFC's and other sources was expected to decrease...the survey found sea ice in the South Pole has increased at a rate of 100,000 sq.kilometres a decade...even as the ice cap around the North Pole melts. The scientists said the reason was the hole in the ozone layer...the ozone layer absorbs heat in the atmosphere, but the emergence of the hole...has cooled temperatures, resulting in more ice...

...Professor John Turner, one of the lead authors said, "...the results underlined the complexity of climate change..." (more from Prof. Turner here.) You are so right Professor...the phrase "headless chooks" comes to mind... I thought the science of climate change was all cut, dusted and settled. Meanwhile, what does Anthony Watt (Watt's up with That WuWT) think of it all ?

here's his take on it......Last weeks’ top Antarctic AGW story was :Antarctic ice melting faster than expected, due to CO2, of course. This week the #1 story is :Antarctic ice spreading but the increase in size is due to “stratospheric ozone depletion” which is of course also caused by man-made gases...So Antarctic ice is disappearing faster than expected due to man, and it is also expanding in size due to man... and one minor problem with the ozone hole theory ”The ozone hole occurs during the Antarctic spring, from September to early December” - but the positive ice anomaly occurred during the autumn and winter (March through July)...more from WuWT here...